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Heritage: Dependence On Gov't Record High:
- JohnMG: Yeah, I've got a thing with Obama's constant talk about fairness. This past week I went to my accountant to have my tax returns for my business filed. While there the talk turned to the economy and other things political. (I first went into business in 1970, and can honestly say these last three years are the absolute worst I've ever endured.) We both lamented of the year 2011 and my returns were as dismal as feared. Anyway, my accountant related this story to me: She had just finished calculating and filing returns for one of her...
- OTA Mom: Hilary's work is available online: http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm...
- Rusty Shackleford: Moose, I believe you are talking about the ever-eternal mental state that humans are never satisfied. For that, and in reference to the average liberal, I have to resort to the quote from 1 Corinthians 13:11. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. I'm not one to quote the bible very often but there is that logical aspect of this piece of scripture. Perhaps given that the average liberal is not...
- Anonymoose: It doesn't take an idiot to see....well maybe it does, that most of the Federal money is going to medicare, retirements, social security, and all the assistance programs. All the $%^@$% about the Bush wars and tax cuts is just a smokescreen. I'm not looking forward to a future where I'll be 65 and unable to retire because the SS money is gone, and barely able to find work because I'm too old and unemployable. And I'll still be getting the same garbage I have my entire life, that I have all the advantages and...
- Petronius: One guy pulling the wagon, three guys riding in the back. Steve : "Heck, in the US you don’t even have to be a citizen." Sure-fire recipe for disaster = a welfare state with open borders. Californication....
WH To 'Accommodate' Religious Organizations:
- mr_bill: He definitely wouldn't do that to the muzzies. The way I understand it, his previous "exemption" was worded so strictly that it only exempted the muzzies. Not surprising at all. I'd pay money to see the look on his face when probed with that question. It's a shame that there are no journalists left in the country capable of asking a pointed question. The Hill is running a piece today about nerobama being "burned by religion again." It's almost comical. The writer works through some mental contortions to arrive at the conclusion that nerobama is being entirely rational on the situation...
- Rusty Shackleford: As I posted on another site, Obama wouldn't dare even consider doing the same thing to the muslims here in the US. People may not know it but birth control and abortion in islame is forbidden. It's as stringent in islame as it is in Catholicism. I would love to see the reporter ask of Mr Ears, after he gave his b*llsh*t answer for justifying this diktat..."And, what if it wasn't the Catholics, Mr President; What if it was the muzlimz?" Oh, the look on his face would be Kodak perfect. Such a question...
- mr_bill: I'm all in favor of women receiving reproductive healthcare. I think they should all have access to the neonatal and prenatal care that our country has made the best in the world. What nerobama and his lot are discussing is not reproductive healthcare. It isn't care at all, it's murder and I'll be damned if they're going to make me pay for it. These statists are never satisfied. First, they invented a "right" to healthcare, now they've invented a "womens' right to abortifacients." Of course, these new rights are all free of the particular individual's responsibility to pay for...
- Rusty Shackleford: To him, everything looks like a nail but he prefers that others do the hammering. After all, he has a tee-time to meet....
- tranquil.night: In Socialist Ameritopia, beer consumes YOU!...
The Hive – Please Talk Among Yourselves:
- proreason: Jeremy Lin...
Selected News For The Week Feb 3 - Feb 9:
- mr_bill: I'm posting this to point out the language the left is using, I presume most or all of the readers here have seen the story. Changing Positions, Obama Campaign Will Push Support for Democratic Super PAC Feb 6, 2012 11:50pm Jake Tapper Messina said on the call this evening...“Last week, filings showed that the Super PAC affiliated with Mitt Romney’s campaign raised $30 million in 2011 from fewer than 200 contributors, most of them from the financial sector. Governor Romney personally helped raise money for this group, which is run by some of his closest allies…With so much at stake, we can’t allow...
- BillK: From the "Just because there's no proof doesn't mean it's not happening" file, courtesy of the UK Guardian: The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year and not being replaced by new snowfall. The study is the first to survey all the world's...
- Curiosity: Lots of grant money for public transportation this week... $125M for bus facilities $650M for repairing facilities $64M for alternative fuel buses and infrastructure I wish some of that would have gone to the DoD... they have a compelling reason to research viable alternative fuels. $12M for solar technology R&D And this one struck me as peculiar: $1.5M (10 grants of $150k) to study the impact of "healthcare reform" on certain diseases or conditions ... if any of you are professors of anything relevant you should try and get one......
- canary: Update appears Egypt ready to chop off heads of American hostages whose count has grown to 19. FOXNews: Egypt to prosecute 44 workers, including 19 Americans, after raids on rights groups Feb 05, 2012 CAIRO – The son of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is among 19 Americans being referred to criminal trial for allegedly receiving foreign funds illegally and being involved in banned activity in Egypt, several news agencies reported Sunday. Move stems from raid on advocacy group directed by Sam LaHood "We have seen media reports that judicial officials in Egypt intend to forward a number of cases involving...
- canary: Obama Accepted Campaign Funds from Fugitive Mexican Murder Suspect & Chicago Relatives. (does 126,000 paso's mean 200,000 dollars?) BBC: Obama campaign returns funds linked to Mexico fugitive Feb 7 2012 President Obama at a fundraiser in Dallas, Texas 4 October 2011 Mr Obama raised $750m during his election campaign in 2008 and has higher aims for 2012 US President Barack Obama's election campaign is to return funding linked to the family of a fugitive Mexican casino magnate. The Chicago-based brothers of Juan Jose Rojas Cardona, known as Pepe, raised some $200,000 (£126,000) for Mr Obama. Pepe Cardona fled the US in 1994 and is...
Jobless Claims Down Again - Unexpectedly:
- Anonymoose: If you go on assistance, then go off, how long do you have to work before if you lose your job again they consider if a "new" claim for unemployment?...
- finebammer59: "It’s like magic." "Fudged for the sake of Barry." the depth and extent of the unsolicited coordination of the media for this administration is staggering. (to me, anyway) think on the period before the president's poll numbers started rising. remember chrissy mathews public lamentations? his concern? "What are we trying to do in this administration? Why does he want a second term? Would he tell us? What’s he going to do in the second term? More of this? Is this it? Is this as good as it gets? Where are we going? Are we going to do something the second term? He has...
- GetBackJack: I reckon when you just quit looking for work you help the "jobless numbers" go down...
- untrainable: Seasonal Adjustment is Marxist code speak for : Fudged for the sake of Barry. At this point, I wonder if there is even the premise of a formula for "seasonal adjustment". Maybe there is a dark, cigar smoke filled room in a basement somewhere in D.C. where Skippy the wonder lizard is throwing darts at a spreadsheet to do the "seasonal calculations". When Princess Pelosi said the Obama administration was going to be the most transparent in history, is this what she meant? An endless deluge of disinformation, propaganda, and outright lies from the regime. They are transparent to any honest...
- proreason: um, if fewer and fewer people are working, won't jobless claims have to go down at some point? After all, if a person is on the dole, why would that person ever apply for a job in the first place? Anyone who would do that is either a nut or a conservative. Eventually, every person will either be on the dole or supporting two or three people who are on the dole by working his ass off. Then we will at last have a responsible society. The few workers will be totally responsible for everybody else....
AP: Contraception Mandate Bludgeon For GOP:
- Chase: This just in via "Fox News Alert" (I am never sure their headlines relate to the news tho...) "President Obama, facing widespread and growing criticism for his decision to require religious employers to provide free birth control to their workers, will announce a policy change that shifts the contraceptive burden to insurance companies."...
- Rusty Shackleford: Truly Brother Petronius....truly. Every time I hear this a-hole speak, I cannot help but think of the heated rhetoric of the marixists and fascists of the past. D'Oh-bama is more reserved than even Stalin in "naming the enemy" of the state but the underlying theme is the same. It often flabbergasts me that much of the lessons I was taught in grade and high school about China, India, Russia and the USSR, Cuba, and of course, Nazi Germany are not even discussed in classrooms anymore. I'll admit in Mr Raymond's Development Of Western Civilization class,...
- Petronius: Rusty : "In the [descent] into national socialism, what was one of the warning signs?" First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out.... He has divided America by race, class, and sex. Now he will divide us by religion....
- Petronius: From AP/Rachel Zoll op-ed hit piece : Four of the most preposterous words in the English language : “Obama, who is Protestant....”...
- Rusty Shackleford: On another line-of-thinking, what say the Obama administration to restricting the activities of muslims as regards their practices? (crickets) Good double-standard there. You go with that, Barry....
State IG: No Improper Influence In Keystone:
- tranquil.night: "Mind you, the State Department’s IG was investigating their review of the Keystone pipeline because the avowed communist socialist, Bernie Sanders (D-Cuba) demanded that it be investigated for undue political influence." LOL. Just as he's been as vigorous with regards to Solyndra, LightSquared, and the rest of vulture socialist brigade, amiright? Keep flying, Icarus, you're almost to the sun....
- GetBackJack: "State IG: No Improper Influence In Keystone" Bwa-hahahaha! Oh my sides ... Wolves? Investigate your own pack for improprieties regarding yon pig. (wolves fall down laughing)...
$25B Settlement To Spur More Foreclosures:
- GetBackJack: Did anyone else note the jarring change in our national lexicon, appropriate to the Obama-era?? Foreclosure-starts instead of Housing-starts (who knew a 19 year old illegal immigrant bus boy would not be able to keep up the payments on a $632,000 4,000 sqft new home with pool? Boy ... it's a real head shaker, I'll tell you)...
Santorum In Second Place In Delegate Race:
- ezra: "I don’t have much time and even less access for reading a lot on line." Ha! On balance, online reading definitely makes you dumber, not smarter! Mostly, it's like a game of telephone played by a bunch of middle schoolers. But there is a lot of credible information out there. Evaluating credibility is the key! Seem like you have a good read of the situation. I think the questions you have are the same ones we all have! I'd say the white house is starting to look like a long shot, though. So we have the whole "lose with dignity" strategy and...
- proreason: Chase, my problem with Romney is that his strategy is, and always has been, to smear his opponents. It's indisputable. To me, that mitigates everything: his business career, his self-declared conservatism, his apparently impeccable personal life. If the only way he can win is to smear people, there is something so seriously wrong with the guy that he can't possibly be the person I want leading the country.....
- Chase: Pro, (or anyone else out there) I don't have much time and even less access for reading a lot on line. I know you are not speaking from totally personal viewpoints, but taking on that of the general electorate in their likely reaction to and take-aways from the media monstrosity coming this Summer and Fall. My general impression of Mr Romney is that he is personally an honest guy, with common sense, a broad background, and most importantly for me, an understanding and appreciation of and dedication to principles of our American heritage. My impression of his time as...
- artboyusa: She's at it again, the Golden Tressed One, is. How many weeks in a row has it been now? In her latest love letter to Romney, she asserts that he's being smeared by the media as a "rich jerk". I think "rich jerk" is the most acurate, kindly and concise way to describe what Willard is, in the same way I think "deluded fantasist" describes anyone who seriously believes this guy can ever be president but, hey, as the Angel Moroni is my judge and unlike others, I'm not expecting him to give me a job after his widely...
- proreason: hmmm. Rush takes notice: "It's interesting. You know, Romney and his super PAC, whoever the non-Romney is that emerges, that super PAC gets in gear. They tear down Newt, they tear down Herman Cain, they tear down Perry -- and turn their sights all of a sudden on "Mr. Nice Guy," Santorum. You know, Santorum was a nobody up until past month or so and just really this week and so they weren't running any attack ads. As far as anybody knew, Santorum was a nice guy. Maybe needs to smile a little bit more but nice guy. Then...
DOJ/States Shake Down Lenders For $25B:
- Chase: My neighboring state of Utah's legislature is keeping $23m of the $171m their state is getting form the shakedown for their slush fund. SALT LAKE CITY — The state of Utah and its homeowners will get an estimated $171 million from a landmark settlement with the nation's biggest mortgage lenders following the country's housing bubble burst. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff says about $102 million of Utah's share will reduce or modify loans for households at risk of foreclosure. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700223636/Utah-takes-171M-in-national-mortgage-settlement.html Another $45 million is available for people who lost their homes to foreclosure. They'll get $2,000, no questions asked. The Utah Legislature will get...
- Petronius: Too bad we all can't use Tony Rezko for our real estate and mortgage needs....
- proreason: Fascism is definitely upping its game....
- P. Aaron: GOV'T IS THE MOB....
Obama To Put More Women In Combat Roles:
- Steve: The TV-movie version of 'Private Slovak' is why Martin Sheen (and even his son) are still the darlings of Hollywood: The Execution of Private Slovik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Execution_of_Private_Slovik...
- GetBackJack: Something Trans-human this way comes....
- finebammer59: this is great! this creates an opportunity to reduce the number of abortions just like our president promised!! sarc/off....
- proreason: The purpose of this is to destroy the American military....
- Rusty Shackleford: However, with the new gay-i-fied military, will that mean that more gays will be put on the front lines or will they leave them in a "rear-area"? Just askin' And, interesting point of order, only one MSM outlet I saw, which was quite accidental, was BBC America on PBS which noted that Bradley Manning is going to be court-martialed. The news erroneously reported that he "could face life in prison". Since it was a time of war, a declared war, even, Manning could get shot by firing squad. 'Course the last guy to have that...
Sea Levels Drop, Himalayas Aren't Melting:
- JohnMG: Every drop of water in the world is recycled over and over. It's not like your gas tank which will eventually run dry. Nature maintains her own balance. But for these morons, the ocean is like your bath tub......if we don't stop the melting it's gonna run over. They're still trying to figure out where it will go. I'm sure if we can just give them some more money they'll figure it out. /s/...
- tranquil.night: So true Curiosity. Much of how they control the agenda in academia and science relates to how their policies intentionally pervert and incentivize the research markets. The statists help the envirofascists by doing things like declaring climate change a national security threat to manufacture paranoia, thus demand for everything from more state action, more preparation - more research, and, of course, green tech. Just look to Spain for answers to how well that "green" economy works. But who are we fooling. We know at the top it's just another redistributionist scam from the corrupt masterminds and their cronies...
- Curiosity: Their climate computers were compromised a few months back....
- Curiosity: As a (the) NASA Federally Funded Research and Development Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory is desperately trying last through low NASA funding and retain its talent by chasing whatever money is out there. It seemed like last summer a full third of their work was climate oriented....
- GetBackJack: Did you know Global Warming Deniers are causing the Earth to lose 50,000 tonnes of it's mass ... every year!! BBC. So you know it's true ......
Obama To Waive 'No Child Left Behind' Rules:
- GetBackJack: Thank you God that my parents schooled me at home long before it was en vogue. And that, in the main, like many of us here, my real education has been self-taught. Don't want, don't need and reject "Government Schooling"....
Stephen Moore: A 'Fairness' Quiz For Obama:
- MZmaj7: Japan's corporate rate is 30%. We have the highest rate in the world. http://www.worldwide-tax.com/japan/japan_tax.asp...
- GetBackJack: Is it fair, Mr. President, that the nation of Chile has a national Social Security system that outperforms ours many many times over, actually belongs to the Payee, and is private, while the System you tout is nothing short of the poverty of slavery? http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/south-america-mainmenu-37/7344-chiles-privatized-social-security-program-is-30-years-old-and-prospering...
WSJ: Waking Up To Dangers Of 'Obama-Care':
- GetBackJack: A virus attacks every healthy cell it can, capturing them, creating host cells (bacteria, plant or animal) in which to live and make more viruses. Outside of a host cell, viruses cannot function. A virus needs a host cell to survive. For this reason, viruses tread the fine line that separates living things from nonliving things. Most scientists agree that viruses are alive because of what happens when they infect a host cell. [1] Unlike human cells or bacteria, viruses do not contain the chemical machinery (enzymes) needed to carry out the chemical reactions for life. Instead, viruses carry only...
- BigOil: Interesting to watch how indignant the deluded become when reality comes crashing in. The church was all to happy to support the Marxists during passage of Obamacare because it seemed to fit with their belief in social justice...but tyranny does not play favorites....
- tranquil.night: The "Body Perfect" is a great way of putting it. "Therefore the ongoing false perfection continues to cripple his mind and gets reinforced every time he runs into trouble and that trouble is assuaged or deflected due to affirmative action or some other character; Possibly something as simple as someone protecting him because they like him (for whatever reason) I have witnessed this phenomenon on occasion." Yes, that is a great insight into the social psychology of Collectivism. Personal responsibility and accountability are never a factor in their worldview. Failure is always because of someone else: bad advice or underlings,...
- BannedbytheTaliban: "some time in Mr. Obama’s second term" Most frightening thing I've ever read....
- tranquil.night: That's right. This isn't just an assault on religious liberty, but all insurance and coverage providers. It always has been, even when all these same religious groups and leaders cared about was carving out their interests and exemptions from the ObamaCare monstrosity they supported. The allure of Utopian-Statist ideology has massively infiltrated many religious institutions and blinded them to the predictably disastrous results of State command and control....
The Hive – Please Talk Among Yourselves:
- proreason: Awesome essay, but a tough read: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1921/article_detail.asp Too much there to summarize but well worth reading....
- proreason: Maybe proreason isn't so crazy after all. David Stockman says this about the unemployment fantasy numbers "In short, if you spend a little time with these numbers you will know that they are being made up. " http://www.businessinsider.com/david-stockman-its-true-the-bls-data-is-made-up-2012-2#ixzz1lidPJvbE There's no getting around that is an astonishing claim by a respected former budget director....
- Curiosity: I try very hard not to make people regret giving me advice, so: thanks! I'd take the rest of this paragraph to private messages, but I'm not sure how to do that on this site. So, as an aside, I'm *attempting* (not necessarily successfully, but trying nonetheless) to follow your 1st, 2nd, and 4th points already (the things I was open or forward about were my attempt to either support my assertions or preclude assumptions that it was simply a personal problem), and while I see nothing morally wrong with the 3rd, I'm still hesitant for personal reasons. I'll...
- proreason: The commercial Clint thought he was filming... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j_8qCbHsUA Screwed in the editing room again....
- proreason: ok Curiosity, I may regret this, but here are a few words of unsolicited, well-meaning (and in some cases hard earned) advice from Miss proreason. The first one is something you will rarely hear. You can want something too much. I've joked about this regarding Ann Coulter a couple of times ("the woman who loved too much"), but it can absolutely be true. It makes you seem weak. This is not an easy thing to overcome, but take my word, you can do it. Go out and do whatever you do well, whether it's your...
UK Kids Start School Lacking Toilet Training:
- Helena: Ya got me there. Send lawyers! ...
- untrainable: the charity Education and Resources for Improving Childhood Continence Seriously? EARFICC.....? Schools need to give staff clear guidance on how to deal with toileting accidents... Toileting? Toileting Accidents? When did jonny on the spot become a verb? Toileting? There is no toileting. They make it sound like a sport! Dooood... I blew out my knee last weekend on a wicked toileting run... Broke my arm during my toileting routine. Awww, man. What happened to you?? Toileting. WTF? As a species, we have peaked. Now we're falling back down the evolutionary path towards pond scum. Some, it seems, have a head start on the...
- proreason: Yeh but did they require more than 1.6 gallons of water? Because if they did, it's just more evidence that only elite lawyers care about the planet....
- Helena: This is truly horrifying. This is ENGLAND we're talking about, not rural Guyana. Britain had toilet systems in the 31st Century BC. It just shows how thin the veneer of our civilization is. We are literally one generation from living like savages. Form the Wikipedia history of toilets: circa 31st century BC: Britain's oldest neolithic village, Skara Brae, Orkney used neolithic hydraulic technology.[2] The village's design used a river and connecting drainage system to wash waste away. Flush toilet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush_toilet...
- proreason: Many people think that England laid the foundations for the modern world and freedom. Mark Stein has written about this. The secret is English Common Law, which is the basis for an amazing number of the most successful political entities in the world: the US, Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, many more. And the influence of England goes well beyond that, since, beginning with the Magna Carta, England has significantly influenced western civilization well beyond the old English Empire. All of that certainly hasn't disappeared, but it sure is a tragic thing that the English people...
Earmarks Fund Properties Near Lawmakers:
- mculls: wasn't Tuscaloosa severely devastated by a tornado?...
DC Workers Stole $800K In Jobless Benefits:
- untrainable: racist... /sarc...
- untrainable: ...authorities anticipate referring at least some cases to federal prosecutors for criminal action… "Some"? Are there any Republican public sector employees in Washington, DC? Yes there are. The few who will be prosecuted. The dems will get off with a slap on the wrist, if that, and probably be allowed to keep whatever money they stole (as long as they vote Obama in the fall). That's the way this administration works....
- proreason: Good post GBJ, but let me complete it, in case it isn't obvious to some. Medicar fraud is allowed to continue for two reasons. The first is that it puts financial pressure on private health providers, who must charge more than the market price would be for OTHER SERVICES in order to cover the cost of the midicare fraud...ergo, medical costs have skyrocketed for years. Which is a good thing for the leftists, because destroying private health care has long been their number one goal. Second, Medicare fraud is another redistribution plan, perhaps the biggest redistribution sheme of all. It...
- tranquil.night: It really isn't puzzling. It's right in front of our faces....
- mr_bill: This just proves that the "rich" aren't being taxed enough. /sarc...
French Slash Gov't Spending 14%, Cut Deficit:
- proreason: What do the French know? We're in a recovery!!! I heard it on TV....
- GetBackJack: Quel culot! Qu'est-ce connards!, the infamy!! When you're broke and a you're a government you're supposed to be spending more more more! J’en ai ras-le-bol...
'Green Car' Maker Fisker Lays Off Workers:
- P. Aaron: If Obama or Biden show up to bless a factory, it goes into a death spiral....
- GetBackJack: Pick, pick, pick :-)...
- jackrv: Two of those listed, Gremlin and Pacer, were AMC models. They were not car companies. And if I remember correctly, the Valiant was a Plymouth model Jack...
- heykev: If I understand Millionaires and Billionaires are BAD when buying yachts and jets and not paying their fair share. But when they purchase electric cars - because no one apart from them can afford these sky high prices they are Good......
- proreason: One problem is that none of those other companies was subsidized by taxpayers who had no choice in the matter. Another problem is that there are starup grocery stores all the time. But none of them would ever consider selling bananas for $2.50 a pound....
1/3rd Of US Get 'Means Based' Assistance:
- Melly: An entitlement society we are becoming with a President who believes he "deserves" a second term....
- BigOil: Our safety net has become a cast net....
Miracle! Homelessness Is Down Under Obama:
- Bronson: They're obviously not counting the homeless Occutards in Oakland; you must go from being a homeless person to a 99%-er just by misspelling "Ocupy" on your cardboard sign. What a joke....
Record 1.2M Left 'Labor Force' In January?:
- P. Aaron: Like Kaiser Sozay, they just disappeared!...
- A Realpolitik: I wonder if age is a factor and many have simply gone on to retirement. Needless to say, there is a significant number of people over fifty who are unemployable just because of their age. Your thoughts?...
- MZmaj7: I also caught this story, but there's some controversy. Apparently, the 1.2M figure is due to regular adjustments from the census. I still have a few suspicions, but I'm in over my head. Would love to hear your thoughts Steve. Here are a few sources for the other side, with varying biases: http://spectator.org/blog/2012/02/03/participation-rate-issue-less http://www.ftportfolios.com/blogs/EconBlog/2012/2/3/wesbury-101---the-growth-deniers http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/getting-it-wrong-bls-employment-report...
- River0: The Demonic Party game plan: Make it profitable for people to drop through the cracks and out of the work force by providing food stamps, unemployment checks, and other welfare. Then the Demonics can say, "What unemployed? Where are they? Things are obviously improving!" These Limbo people stay quiet and vote Demonic Party so their gravy train will continue. The fact that nobody sees or reports this - for the most part - is a devastating measure of the corruption around us. We Americans will find out what we're really made of in the next ten months....
Hundreds Of Poor Freeze To Death In Europe:
- untrainable: They'll say that the incredible variation over just one year proves that they were right all along. OMG The sky is blue. See, we were right all along....
Indiana Becomes 23rd ‘Right to Work’ State:
- Mithrandir: *UPDATE* Teacher can’t be fired for this tasteless F’book crack about kids, judge rules New York Post: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/hate_their_guts_they_are_all_devil_fVimwdImGLW8bfdek8OQmN A Brooklyn teacher — fired for posting snarky online comments suggesting her unruly students should drown — can go back to the classroom, a judge says. Nobody should be able to invade your private life, comments, emails, letters, private conversations, --report it back to your boss, --and have you lose your job over it. We are all covered under the 1st Amendment, and are allowed to have private lives. I don't want to hear, (whiny voice) "But they are teachers, and they have a...
- Astravogel: An interesting juxtaposition; "I apologize for the broad brushstroke..." and "...teachers are the dumbest people on campus." Perhaps a narrower brush might help make the point? The Republic seems to have gotten on rather well with all the sub-standard teachers alluded to in the post....
- Mithrandir: I apologize, for the broad brushstroke, I should have just pinpointed Florida, and there is nothing bullsh*t about that situation at all, my neice's husband lived it. I have been on both sides as well, part of a union, and non-union. Both suck. I have had union protection, and I have seen the union not give a crap. I have been non-union and been cheated, lied to, fired, salary withheld, injured without medical treatment, exploited without protection. It's possible to solve this issue with public unions if people wouldn't oscillate between 2 extreme choices: 1. Have guaranteed protections...
NATO Report: ISI Is Helping Afghan Taliban:
- Astravogel: An interesting comment from someone called "twinspeedr" So, here we are all you Radical Liberal Activists. (those NOT in an Egyptian prison of course) You helped the Islamists overthrow the Western puppet dictator that kept the peace in a country that is populated by poor, uneducated, Muslims. The Islamists that are now in control actually HATE liberal western culture, you knew that when you got in bed with these butchers, right? Wait... were they using YOU, the way you thought you were using THEM?!!!! No way... dude! Bummer. So, now all these countries in the Middle East that you thought were going...
The Hive – Please Talk Among Yourselves:
- captstubby: have to polish off a few other projects before i can give Ameritopia my full attention. its a a sad fact that this and most like minded books will be bought, read, and put on a Conservatives shelf, while all of the Lefts writings are in thousands of schools and libraries as text books and reference material .maybe if we put more pictures in them........
- Rusty Shackleford: Yup, been reading Ameritopia as my ....uh...."private-time" reader. I also carry it to lunch with me on weekends when I can't listen to Rush. I just got through some of the part about Plato's utopian society which, he admitted, would be flawed due to the faults of mankind. It amounts to little more than a paper exercise and that's all communism, socialism, utopianism is ever good for. That and the occasional science-fiction series or big-screen movie. And, it's the single reason I have no desire to see Avatar. Once again the commies getting...
- tranquil.night: Ameritopia is kicking raw ass out there without practically any advertising or press coverage. Bravo Mark. It really is as everyone agrees: timeless. Jeffrey Lord, whose also been kicking a lot of raw ass, also had I thought the best review of the book: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/01/17/ameritopia-explodes-into-2012 Favorite JL quote: "Ameritopia is historical X-ray vision in book form." Ah, that takes me back to an essay from the Debt Ceiling battle: "Approach human events as a War of the Worldviews, and it is like having an x-ray visor to see through the Firewall of Lies of the Statists." http://sweetness-light.com/archive/the-hive-please-talk-among-yourselves-2#comment-202806 Let it shine!...
- tranquil.night: Bill Whittle over at Declaration Entertainment and PJM has been a real pearl for some time now: Here he is on why appealing to Independents by abondoning ideology in favor of the amorphous 'center' is not a way to win: http://www.therightscoop.com/bill-whittle-why-appealing-to-independents-is-not-the-way-to-win/ Narrating a summation from Andy McCarthy's "The Grand Jihad" on the roots of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafist ideology, and Obama's dangerous Chamberlain-esque Middle East record: http://www.therightscoop.com/bill-whittle-why-appealing-to-independents-is-not-the-way-to-win/ And my all time favorite: a summation of Bill Epstein's "Why Progressive Institutions Are Unsustainable" in the context of Occupy vs the Tea Party worldviews: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojYjv72x5ts...
- canary: Advice, many Americans will hit their 18th birthday 2012. The schools and their Democratic Union purposes are hot on the trail with the kiddie Young Democratic club. Plenty of teachers involved getting the young to do phones and activity. On the other hand no Republican teachers or students want the flak of a Young Republican's club. So, it might be good to remind people who know young adults to register to vote. And make sure you touch base with older people who are 4 years older and may not be as mobile as they were last election to...
Obama: If I Don't Have This Done In 3 Years:
- tranquil.night: I think what's going to end up defining the Obama legacy more than any of its chaotic chapters is the overall Orwellian nature of the man, his administration, and his coalition, from start to finish, across all issues, through and through As that "red meat with meatballs to drink" Congressman Allen West said recently: "Bring it on baby" (dropping Pro's catchphrase btw): http://www.wnd.com/2012/01/allen-west-get-the-hell-out-of-the-usa/ Of course his delicious "get the hell out of America" line lit a fuse under the pc panty-waists, but that's just a bonus (West for VP!!) Here's a musicbreak, dedicated to all Liberals, but especially the pundits who were...
Happy Days! Unemployment Rate Down .2%:
- Petronius: Yes TN, the Jan report will be coming soon. Defense, aviation, and aerospace industries are heading for heavy layoffs due to cuts in defense and NASA programs. These are high skilled, high tech jobs that are not easily replaced. Many of these cuts will probably not materialize until after the Nov election, but they are coming. Also, gains in employment are occurring as the result of fewer workers rather than economic growth. If the labor force participation rate had held steady in Jan (instead of declining), BLS U3 unemployment would have actually gone up...
Selected News For The Week Jan 28 – Feb 3:
- proreason: who wudda thunk it. Expats now nearly 8 times rate in Bushhitler's last year. http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2012/02/number-of-us.html What is it they don't lie. The hope? Or the change?...

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